BEST IELTS Writing Task 2, 30th October

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IELTS WRITING TASK 2

Some people view conflict between teenagers and parents as a necessary part of growing up, while others view it as something negative which should be avoided.

Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

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We all want to grow up into mature and confident adults, who are emotionally and psychologically balanced. The question is – how can this be achieved? Do we encourage young people to rebel against their parents as a way of ‘standing on their own two feet’ and establishing their independence, or do we take the opposite view and discourage generational conflict between parents and children by helping both age groups to better understand each other?

Adolescence is traditionally a difficult age when young people go through dramatic physical and emotional changes in a relatively short space of time. As a result, many people feel that some conflict between parents and their children is inevitable. In a sense, it is neither ‘good’ nor ‘bad’, it is just a fact of life. I think it should also be noted that ‘conflict’ is seen differently by different cultures – in the West it can often be seen in a positive light, whilst in many Asian cultures it has negative associations.

In my own personal case, I didn’t communicate very much with my parents while I was growing up and therefore there was no real conflict involved in our relationship, but on the other hand there was no real understanding either. This was a similar experience of many of my male friends. Girls, on the other hand, seemed to have a closer relationship with their mothers, especially the ones with younger mothers, which meant that the age gap was not so great.

Personally, I think that in an ideal world, children should communicate closely with their parents because both could learn a lot from each other. In my view, I think we isolate ourselves too much within the narrow confines of our own age group, giving us a limited view of the world and preventing us from growing up in the best way possible. The problem is, we don’t live in an ideal world. Parents and their children are not perfect, so in the end I feel that teenage conflict is probably an inevitable, but certainly not negative, part of growing up.

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